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Berlin collective The T-Shirt Issue has sliced up jersey fabric to create four faceted garments that capture stages of a sweatshirt melting into the ground (+ slideshow).

Hande Akcayli, Murat Kocyigit and Rozi Rexhepi of the The T-Shirt Issue deconstruct the everyday garment into new forms.

“Our approach is to take an incredibly common object like a T-shirt and break it into its smallest meaningful elements to build a new piece free from the strictures of the original,” they said.

Their latest project, Melt, takes a long-sleeved sweatshirt and breaks it down in four stages until it becomes a flat puddle of jersey.

Starting with an easily recognisable faceted form, each subsequent piece is more crumpled and folded as if it has melted.

The sleeves merge with the body of the top and the hem splays outward until it becomes horizontally flat.

“With Melt we shape and deconstruct the ego in real life,” said the designers. “Each polygon stands for a different facet of the persona, symbolising the process of development, connected through personal experience. With each step, the ego increasingly lets go of social structures and self-centredness. What remains is a melting pot of possibility.”

To create the designs, high resolution 3D scans of a sweatshirt were reduced to just 360 polygons and the creases where the shapes met were exaggerated.

A 3D animation tool was used to morph the shape into three more forms, reducing the amount of polygons each time.

Jersey fabric was then laser cut using a card pattern and sewn together, stiffened with thick paper on the inside to keep the forms rigid.

Melt will be installed at Gallery R’Pure during New York Fashion Week, from 6 February at 7pm.

We featured more designs by The T-Shirt Issue created using human body scans to create sewing patterns in 2008 and included the project in our Dezeen Book of Ideas.

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Rather than slotting onto chains, these 3D-printed pendants by Italian designer Maria Jennifer Carew hang from the edge of the wearer’s clothing (+ slideshow).

Maria Jennifer Carew stripped the pendant necklace down to its most essential component and created her LessIS collection of simple geometric designs that clip onto garments.

“Today accessories are a key element in any outfit, so I decided to focus on the concept of necklace where often the most important role is played by the pendant and not by the chain that supports it,” she told Dezeen.

Each design is based on a continuous strand of material, which loops back on itself into a thin element that hooks behind a lip of fabric.

Shapes range from circles, triangles and squares to more complex polygons. Some pieces have extra bars within the outer edge for added decoration.

The jewellery can be clipped onto the collar of tops, and can also be placed over the placket of a shirt or into the top of a chest pocket.

The pendants are printed in bronze, brass and black or white nylon.

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Cologne 2014: Eindhoven designer Tsuyoshi Hayashi has used discarded roof tiles to create curving seats for a series of stools and benches (+ slideshow).

Hayashi gathered the traditional kawara tiles from a factory in Takahama, a city in Japan with a long history of producing the curved roof tiles from local clay.

Across Japan, a five percent rate of kawara tiles being damaged during production results in more than 65,000 pieces being sent to landfill every year.

Hayashi cuts off the chipped or cracked parts of the damaged tiles and fixes them to a wooden frame that he designed to fit the standardised shape so no nails or glue are required for assembly.

“The smooth curved shape [of the tiles] invites people to sit and it keeps one’s posture straight ergonomically,” Hayashi told Dezeen.

The designer added that the processes used to manufacture the tiles make them extremely durable and weatherproof so they can be used outdoors.

“Japanese roof tiles are fired in more than 1200 degrees [Celsius], which makes them harder than the ones in Europe, which are mostly fired at around 800 degrees,” said Hayashi. “A single chair can support a person weighing up to 120 kilograms.”

Other properties that attracted Hayashi to seek out a new function for these redundant objects included the variety of textures and colours that are produced.

“Smoked roof tiles gives an ageing texture to the surface, and colours are created continuously by glazing companies as waste material after they showed them to the clients,” said the designer.

The wooden frames can be constructed as single pieces or combined to create long benches with legs of different heights.

Hayashi graduated from Design Academy Eindhoven last year and opened his own studio in the city in December. He is working on projects that explore potential uses for various waste materials from factories in Europe and Japan.

“My biggest wish is to collaborate with factories in each country and apply my design principle to propose unique value and locality of waste material,” said Hayashi.

The Kawara project was exhibited as part of the [D3] Design Talents exhibition at imm cologne.

This year’s [D3] Contest was won by a storage rail based on a traditional Shaker-style peg board. Imm cologne continues until Sunday at the Koelnmesse exhibition centre.

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